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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.13.0.0 Administrator Guide for DM5500

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Restore the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance server

You can restore PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance server persisted data as a new instance using any of the backups. Only the Administrator role can carry out the restore.

Prerequisites

Ensure that:
  • The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance version that is deployed on your system and the backups you are using for the restore match.
  • The network configuration is the same on the newly deployed PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance system as on the failed instance that you are restoring.

Steps

  1. Deploy the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance OVA and power it on.
  2. Select Restore Backup.

    To delay jobs defined by your protection policies until otherwise specified, select After restore, keep the product in recovery mode so that scheduled workflows are not triggered. When selected, after restore the system enters recovery maintenance mode. During recovery maintenance mode:

    • All jobs defined by your protection policies that modify the backup storage (for example, backup creation, backup deletion, and PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Server DR jobs) are not triggered.
    • All operations that write to the backup storage are disabled.
    • A system alert is displayed in PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance.

      To enable automatically scheduled operations and user operations that write to the backup storage, click Return to full Operational mode in the alert.
        

  3. Specify the following storage information:
    1. Protection Storage system IP where the recovery backups are stored.
    2. Protection Storage NSF Export Path where the recovery backups are stored.
    3. Click Connect.
  4. Select the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance instance that you would like to restore, and then click OK.
  5. Select the backup file that you would like to use for recovery, and then click Recover.
  6. Specify the lockbox passphrase associated with the backup, and start the recovery.
    This step initiates the recovery and display the progress status. The recovery process can take approximately eight minutes before the URI is redirected to the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance login.

Results

The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance server is recovered.

Next steps

After a successful recovery:

  • The time zone of the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance instance is set to the same as that of the backup.
  • All preloaded accounts are reset to default passwords, as described in the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Site Readiness Guide . The preloaded UI administrator account is an exception and retains its password. Change the passwords for all preloaded accounts as soon as possible.

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